Nicki Minaj is following Mariah Carey out the door on American Idol.
The hip-hop diva posted Thursday on Twitter that it was "time to focus on the music," just a few hours after Carey announced she wasn't coming back to the Fox talent competition so that she could focus on her upcoming tour.

American Idol raises the curtain on the final performance show of a season that has swung wildly from ordinary to extraordinary, inconsequential to inspirational and, last week, from wearily predictable to wildly unpredictable in the space of a single hour.

At last. American Idol has found its voice. The excruciating — and often cruel — audition shows are just another bad memory, and so is Idol’s horrific Hollywood Week, with its pointless group numbers, bickering contestants forced to perform together and the crying room.

No one will ever confuse the Baby Boomers with the Greatest Generation. On the flip side, no one has written a book just yet called Gen X: How the Boomers Took Your Job, Stole Your Pension, Wrecked the Economy and Ruined the Planet.